Justin Huffaker
Software Engineer Architect at Tableau Software
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Huffaker is a software engineer architect with over a decade of experience turning loose groups of developers into high-performing, collaborative teams at companies like Tableau and Microsoft. He combines hands-on refactoring and test reliability improvements in open-source projects with large-scale operational changes that measurably sped developer integration times from hours to minutes, yielding 3–10x productivity gains. Known for sensing clarity in ambiguous situations, he frequently translates fuzzy goals into concrete technical steps and sustainable processes. Based in Kirkland, WA, he focuses on continuous improvement across code quality, developer workflows, and team execution. An active contributor to projects like wclr/yalc, he emphasizes maintainability and deterministic tests as foundations for faster shipping.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Purdue University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
testing10
typescript-types9
yarnpkg9
typescript9
typescripts9
npm9
dependency-management8
dependency-manager8
dependency-analysis8
developer-tools8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wclr/yalc
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Work with yarn/npm packages locally like a boss.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 9 PRs, 24 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Justin primarily refactored and improved existing code, focusing on removing unused elements and optimizing the codebase. They updated multiple files, including those related to package management, publishing, and testing. Furthermore, the user appears to have worked on testing-related improvements, specifically focusing on signature consistency across test runs. These changes indicate a focus on code quality, maintainability, and test reliability within the project.
dependenciesyarnnpm-linknpm-clilocally
tableau/npm-pack-here
Apr 2020 - May 2022
An alternative to the Yarn link and NPM link workflows, this tool packs a local NPM project and puts the packed contents into the given destination directories.
Contributions:3 releases, 7 reviews, 7 commits in 2 years 2 months
yarndestinationnpm-linkjavascriptpacks
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